{"product_id":"11112-8x10-persian-handmade-mahal-vintage-rug","title":"11112 - Persian Mahal Oversized Rug 8' x 10'2\"","description":"\u003cp\u003eLarge rust and steel blue blossoms are spread across this wonderful rug with room between them. From across a room the field reads dusty blue, a pale gray blue ground set with large palmettes and rosettes in rust, burgundy and steel blue. There is no medallion: the field is an all-over plan, with a beautiful lobed camel rosette at its center and graceful vines tying the flowers together. Small blossoms and a few coiled spirals fill the open ground. The main border is wide and shares the pale blue ground, with large rosettes in burgundy, steel blue and camel set between rows of small blossoms on thin stems. Rust guard stripes frame it on both sides, each carrying tiny flower heads and a fine blue line. The pile is low across the whole rug. It slips into a quiet room, where the dusty blue ground cools the rust and burgundy flowers. At 8' by 10'2\", it fits a dining table for six with the chairs pulled out, or a full living room seating group.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe biggest exporter of oriental carpets from Persia in the late 19th century was the Ziegler company of Arak, the town then called Sultanabad. A hundred hamlets and villages within a day’s journey of Sultanabad wove rugs for its market, by the count of Walter Hawley, writing in 1913. Mahal rugs come from the villages around Arak in central Persia, and they were woven large and open. That means a wide field, generous spacing between the motifs, and a palette that leans soft rather than saturated. This rug has that wide field, with each big flower set apart on the dusty blue ground. Its border repeats the field’s pale blue, so the rosettes and blossom rows read as one calm frame around the center.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery rug we sell is one of a kind, and this is the only one like it. Hand-knotted wool pile on a cotton foundation, vintage, approx. 50 years (1970s). Condition: professionally washed \u0026amp; cleaned. It ships folded and fully insured.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Storied Rugs","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68009160868153,"sku":"AL_11112_245x310","price":3175.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1005\/6964\/5369\/files\/11112_1.jpg?v=1794097151","url":"https:\/\/storiedrugs.com\/products\/11112-8x10-persian-handmade-mahal-vintage-rug","provider":"Storied Rugs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}